Notes and Notables

Notes and Notables

A mass shooting killed three people and wounded 10 others, including two police officers, at a Fordyce, Arkansas grocery store on Friday.

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The Allegheny County Health Department issued an alert for Redfin Blues on Washington's Landing after an inspection on Thursday.

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Last year, only the Marine Corps and the Space Force met their recruiting goals. The army fell an astounding 10,000 recruits short of its modest goal of adding 65,000 soldiers to maintain its current size. The deficiency is not just a personnel problem; it speaks to a lack of confidence that young Americans and their families have in the purpose and mission of the military.

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The U.S. Navy now has fewer than 300 ships, compared with 592 at the end of the Reagan administration.

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A total of 44% of Americans say they approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president and 51% say they disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. In May, 39% approved of the way Biden was handling his job as president and 56% disapproved.
How is that possible?

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China has doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal since 2020.

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President Barack Obama drastically reduced funding for the development of hypersonic missiles in 2011, leaving China and Russia far ahead of the United States in acquiring these important new weapons that travel at more than five times the speed of sound and can maneuver within the earth’s atmosphere.

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In the 1950s, Lockheed delivered the first U-2 spy aircraft less than a year and a half after getting the contract
In the disorganized and hyper-regulated modern Washington, such an achievement would be impossible today. For example, in the early and mid-1990s, when the Navy was designing its current class of aircraft carriers, it added a requirement for an electromagnetic aircraft launch system—a technology that did not exist at the time.